Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, commonly known as IIT Kharagpur or IIT KGP, is a public institute of technology, research university and autonomous institute established by the Government of India in Kharagpur, West Bengal, and is the oldest and first-founded of the Indian Institutes of Technology印度理工学院克勒格布尔分校（IIT Kharagpur，简称 IIT KGP）是印度政府在孟加拉邦克勒格布尔创办的公立理工学院、研究型大学与自治学院，也是印度理工学院体系中最先创办、历史最悠久的一所

Founded in 1951 and recognised as an Institute of National Importance, it was designated an Institute of Eminence by the Government of India in 2019, has about 22,000 residents on a campus some five kilometres from Kharagpur railway station south-west of Kolkata, and is placed 205th in the world in the QS World University Rankings 2027该校创办于 1951 年，被认定为「国家重要学院」，并于 2019 年由印度政府授予「卓越学院」地位；其校园距加尔各答西南的克勒格布尔火车站约 5 公里，校内约住有 22,000 人，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列世界第 205 位

History

• In 1946, a year before Indian independence, a committee was set up by Sir Jogendra Singh, a member of the Viceroy's executive council, to consider the creation of higher technical institutions for the industrial development of India after the Second World War1946 年，即印度独立前一年，总督行政会议成员乔金德拉·辛格爵士设立委员会，研究为印度在第二次世界大战后的工业发展建立高等技术院校的事宜。
• This was followed by a 22-member committee headed by Nalini Ranjan Sarkar, whose interim report urged the establishment of institutions along the lines of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and with advice from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and recommended that work start at once with major institutions in the east and the west of the country此后由纳利尼·兰詹·萨卡尔领衔的 22 人委员会提出中期报告，主张参照麻省理工学院、并咨询伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-尚佩恩分校来创办此类院校，并建议立即在印度东部与西部各建一所重点院校。
• Because West Bengal then had the highest concentration of industry, its chief minister Bidhan Chandra Roy persuaded Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister, to establish the first institute in the state由于当时孟加拉邦工业最为集中，该邦首席部长比丹·钱德拉·罗伊说服印度首任总理贾瓦哈拉尔·尼赫鲁把第一所院校设在孟加拉邦。
• The first Indian Institute of Technology was thus established in May 1950 as the Eastern Higher Technical Institute, initially housed in Esplanade East in Calcutta第一所印度理工学院遂于 1950 年 5 月以「东部高等技术学院」之名成立，最初借用加尔各答滨海东区的房舍办学。
• In September 1950 it shifted to its permanent campus at Hijli, Kharagpur, south-west of Kolkata, a site that had been used as a detention camp during British rule in India, where Indian independence activists were imprisoned1950 年 9 月，学院迁往位于加尔各答西南克勒格布尔希吉里的永久校园，该地在英国统治时期曾被用作拘留营，关押印度独立运动者。
• When the first session started in August 1951 there were 224 students and 42 teachers across ten departments, and the classrooms, laboratories and administrative office were housed in the historic building of the Hijli Detention Camp, now known as Shaheed Bhawan1951 年 8 月首届学期开课时，学院设有 10 个系、共 224 名学生与 42 名教师，教室、实验室与行政办公室都设在历史悠久的希吉里拘留营建筑内，该楼今称「烈士楼」。
• That office building had served during the Second World War as the headquarters of the Bomber Command of the United States Twentieth Air Force那座办公楼在第二次世界大战期间曾是美国第二十航空队轰炸机司令部的总部。
• The name Indian Institute of Technology was adopted before the institute's formal inauguration on 18 August 1951 by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, India's first education minister在 1951 年 8 月 18 日由印度首任教育部长毛拉纳·阿布尔·卡拉姆·阿扎德主持正式落成典礼之前，学院便已采用「印度理工学院」之名。
• Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru delivered the institute's first convocation address, and IIT Kharagpur remains the first and oldest of the IITs总理贾瓦哈拉尔·尼赫鲁发表了该院的首届毕业典礼演讲，克勒格布尔分校至今仍是印度理工学院中最早、最老的一所。
• On 18 May 1956 a bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha to declare the institute an institution of national importance, and on 15 September 1956 the Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur) Act, 1956, received the assent of the President, which made the Central Government responsible for the institute's funding and administration1956 年 5 月 18 日，一项法案提交人民院，拟宣布该院为「国家重要学院」，1956 年 9 月 15 日《1956 年印度理工学院（克勒格布尔）法》获得总统批准，由此中央政府承担起学院的经费与管理责任。
• It is the fourth-oldest technical institute in West Bengal, after IIEST Shibpur, founded as Bengal Engineering College in 1856, Jadavpur University, founded as the Bengal Technical Institute in 1906, and Rajabazar Science College, established in 1914它是孟加拉邦第四古老的技术院校，仅次于 1856 年以孟加拉工程学院之名创办的希布尔 IIEST、1906 年以孟加拉技术学院之名创办的贾达夫普尔大学，以及 1914 年成立的拉贾巴扎尔理学院。
• The Srinivasa Ramanujan Complex grew in stages, with Takshashila starting operation in 2002, Vikramshila in 2003 and Nalanda in 2012斯里尼瓦萨·拉马努金建筑群分期建成，塔克沙希拉于 2002 年启用、维克拉姆希拉于 2003 年启用、那烂陀于 2012 年启用。
• The former Hijli Detention Camp building, renamed Hijli Saheed Bhavan, now hosts the Nehru Museum of Science and Technology and is described as an imposing building resembling the Byzantine style of architecture昔日的希吉里拘留营建筑后更名「希吉里烈士楼」，如今设内赫鲁科技博物馆，该建筑被认为庄重宏伟、带有拜占庭式建筑风格。
• The Rural Development Centre, established in 1975, develops customised technologies for the local community and coordinates the institute's National Service Scheme programmes1975 年成立的农村发展中心为当地社区开发定制技术，并统筹学院的全国服务计划。
• The Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy cell, known as SRIC, has handled sponsored research projects and industrial consultancy assignments since 1982 and has the infrastructure to administer 600 research projects at once名为 SRIC 的「资助研究与产业咨询」机构自 1982 年起承担资助研究项目与产业咨询事务，其设施可同时管理 600 个研究项目。
• On 5 September 2019 the institute was awarded Institute of Eminence status by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, along with four other public institutions, enabling full autonomy and special incentives2019 年 9 月 5 日，人力资源发展部连同另外四所公立院校一并授予该院「卓越学院」地位，使其获得完全自治权与专项激励。
• On 19 June 2025 Suman Chakraborty was appointed director of IIT Kharagpur2025 年 6 月 19 日，苏曼·查克拉博蒂获任命为克勒格布尔分校校长。
• In 2021 the institute entered into a strategic partnership with the University of Manchester and launched a dual-award doctoral programme2021 年，学院与曼彻斯特大学建立战略合作，推出联合授予博士学位的项目。
• In 2025 it signed memoranda of understanding with TU Darmstadt of Germany and with Swansea University of Wales, and in February 2026 a further memorandum with Saint Petersburg Mining University in Russia on research into critical minerals and the green transition2025 年，学院与德国达姆施塔特工业大学、威尔士斯旺西大学分别签署合作备忘录，2026 年 2 月又与俄罗斯圣彼得堡矿业大学就关键矿产与绿色转型研究签署备忘录。
• Over the decades the institute's academic capabilities diversified far beyond engineering, and its offerings now span science, management, law, agriculture, architecture, the humanities and medicine数十年来，学院的学术版图早已远超出工程领域，如今涵盖理学、管理学、法学、农学、建筑、人文学科与医学。

Academics

• The institute is organised into 19 academic departments, eight multi-disciplinary centres or schools, thirteen schools of excellence and more than 25 central research and development units, a structure that makes it one of the largest technical institutions in India学院设有 19 个学系、8 个跨学科中心或学系、13 个卓越学系以及 25 个以上校级研发机构，这一架构使其成为印度规模最大的技术院校之一。
• Its departments span engineering, the basic sciences, architecture and planning, the humanities and social sciences, law, management, agricultural and food engineering, and medical science and technology其学系涵盖工程、基础科学、建筑与规划、人文与社会科学、法学、管理学、农业与食品工程以及医学科学与技术。
• The Vinod Gupta School of Management was founded in 1993 and began with a batch of 30 students, and the Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship trains students in the creation of new ventures维诺德·古普塔管理学院成立于 1993 年，首届仅有 30 名学生；拉金德拉·米什拉工程创业学院则培养学生的创业能力。
• The Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, established with the support of George Washington University, is the only law school within the Indian Institutes of Technology system在乔治·华盛顿大学支持下创办的拉吉夫·甘地知识产权法学院，是印度理工学院体系中唯一的法学院。
• The School of Medical Science and Technology, the first of its kind in India, trains graduates in medicine in the art and science of medical research印度首创的医学科学与技术学系专门培养医学毕业生从事医学研究。
• The Bachelor of Technology is a four-year, eight-semester programme whose first year is common to all departments, after which students may change department on the strength of their first two semesters技术学士学位为四年八个学期制，第一年各系课程共通，此后学生可依前两学期成绩申请转系。
• Most dual-degree programmes run for five years and integrate a bachelor's and a master's degree, against six years for a conventional B.Tech followed by an M.Tech多数双学位项目为期五年，把学士与硕士学位整合在一起，相比之下常规的「技术学士加技术硕士」需要六年。
• Admission to undergraduate programmes is through the Joint Entrance Examination, with candidates first passing JEE Main and then JEE Advanced since 2013, while M.Tech admission is largely through GATE, M.Sc. through JAM and management studies through CAT本科招生通过联合入学考试，考生自 2013 年起须先通过 JEE Main 再通过 JEE Advanced，技术硕士主要凭 GATE 录取，理科硕士凭 JAM，管理类凭 CAT。
• Fifteen per cent of seats are reserved for Scheduled Castes, 7.5 per cent for Scheduled Tribes and 27 per cent for students from Other Backward Classes15% 的名额预留给「表列种姓」、7.5% 留给「表列部落」，另有 27% 预留给「其他落后阶层」的学生。
• The institute is a member of LAOTSE, a network of European and Asian universities that exchanges students and senior scholars学院是 LAOTSE 成员，该网络联结欧洲与亚洲的高校，互派学生与资深学者。
• The Central Library began in 1951 in a small room of the old building with a collection of 2,500 books and today holds more than 350,000 books and documents, subscribes to over 1,600 printed and online journals and conference proceedings, and offers a wide range of electronic resources to its readers中央图书馆 1951 年始于旧楼的一间小屋、藏书 2,500 册，如今藏书与文献逾 350,000 件，订阅 1,600 余种纸质与电子期刊及会议论文集，并向读者提供丰富的电子资源。
• In the 2015 count the institute had about 605 faculty members and 1,933 employees, with roughly 10,010 students living on campus按 2015 年统计，学院约有 605 名教师与 1,933 名员工，约 10,010 名学生住校。
• According to its research information system the faculty includes 291 professors and 141 associate professors, and its recorded output runs to 29,310 journal articles, 8,300 conference papers and 1,659 books or chapters据其科研信息系统，学院教师包括 291 名教授与 141 名副教授，已记录成果达 29,310 篇期刊论文、8,300 篇会议论文与 1,659 部专著或章节。
• In 2026 the institute established the Vikram Sodhi Centre of Excellence for AI-Enabled Geological and Mining Systems, backed by a commitment of 15 crore rupees over five years from Vikram Sodhi, vice chairman of Mineros SA2026 年，学院成立「维克拉姆·索迪人工智能地质与采矿系统卓越中心」，由矿业公司 Mineros SA 副主席维克拉姆·索迪承诺在五年内捐资 15 千万卢比支持。
• In May 2026 Persistent Systems partnered with the institute to set up an AI Innovation Lab within the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, focused on responsible AI for healthcare, finance and education2026 年 5 月，Persistent Systems 与学院合作在计算机科学与工程系内设立人工智能创新实验室，聚焦医疗、金融与教育领域的负责任人工智能。
• The institute maintains continuing-education programmes for working engineers and scientists and, as of 2006, had helped publish 103 course-curriculum books学院为在职工程师与科研人员开设继续教育项目，截至 2006 年已协助出版 103 种课程教材。
• The institute shares a common Visitor, a position held by the President of India, and the IIT Council with the other IITs, while its own Board of Governors has thirteen members representing West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand and Odisha学院与其他印度理工学院共设一位由印度总统担任的「监察人」以及 IIT 理事会；其自身的董事会由十三名成员组成，代表孟加拉邦、比哈尔邦、贾坎德邦与奥迪沙邦。

Campus

• The institute lies just outside the town of Kharagpur, in the village of Hijli about five kilometres from Kharagpur station in West Midnapore district, a junction on the South Eastern Railway, and its campus is home to about 22,000 inhabitants学院位于克勒格布尔镇外的希吉里村，距西米德纳普尔县的克勒格布尔火车站约 5 公里，该站是东南铁路的重要枢纽，校园内约住有 22,000 人。
• The layout of the campus and the design of its buildings were carried out by a group of engineers and architects under the guidance of the Swiss architect Werner M. Moser校园布局与建筑设计由一组工程师与建筑师在瑞士建筑师维尔纳·M·莫泽指导下完成。
• Twenty-two student hostels line Scholars Avenue, which runs from the institute gate to the B. C. Roy Technology Hospital, and the three oldest halls, Patel, Azad and Nehru, form the PAN loop of the old campus22 座学生宿舍沿学者大道分布，该大道从学院大门通往 B·C·罗伊技术医院，最古老的三座宿舍帕特尔、阿扎德与尼赫鲁构成老校区的「PAN 环路」。
• The main building houses most of the administrative offices, the lecture halls and two auditoriums, and its Netaji Auditorium stages official functions and doubles as a cinema for the campus on weekend nights主楼设有大部分行政办公室、讲堂与两座礼堂，其中的内塔吉礼堂承办官方活动，并在周末夜晚兼作校内电影院。
• The Nehru Museum of Science and Technology holds more than a hundred indoor exhibits, and its grounds contain fourteen open-air demonstrations including a fighter plane and a steam engine内赫鲁科技博物馆收藏一百余件室内展品，其庭院设有 14 处露天演示装置，包括一架战斗机和一台蒸汽机。
• The Srinivasa Ramanujan Complex provides shared academic facilities, with Vikramshila containing four lecture halls and the 850-seat Kalidas Auditorium斯里尼瓦萨·拉马努金建筑群提供共用教学设施，其中维克拉姆希拉设有四座讲堂与可容纳 850 人的迦梨陀娑礼堂。
• The Kolkata extension centre at Rajarhat offers continuing-education and distance-learning courses and guest-house accommodation, and its campus houses 2,500 students位于拉贾尔哈特的加尔各答延伸中心提供继续教育、远程教育课程与招待所住宿，其校区容纳 2,500 名学生。
• The Jnan Ghosh Stadium and the Tata Sports Complex host large-scale sports competitions, while the Tagore Open Air Theatre seats 6,000 people for cultural programmes智慧·戈什体育场与塔塔体育中心承办大型体育赛事，泰戈尔露天剧场可容纳 6,000 人观看文化演出。
• The campus is almost self-sufficient, with six guest houses, a civic hospital, four nationalised banks, four schools and a police station, and it draws water through a pipeline from wells near the Kosai river 112 kilometres away, stored in twelve tanks with a combined capacity of 2,800,000 litres校园近乎自给自足，设有六座招待所、一所职工医院、四家国有银行、四所学校与一个警察局，其用水经管道取自 112 公里外科赛河附近的井水，储于十二座总容量 2,800,000 升的水罐。
• Its four campus schools are Hijli High School, Kendriya Vidyalaya, D.A.V Model School and St. Agnes Branch School校内的四所学校分别是希吉里高中、中央学校、D.A.V 示范学校与圣阿格尼斯分校。
• The Science and Technology Entrepreneurs' Park, known as STEP, provides infrastructure facilities to alumni of the institute who wish to start their own companies名为 STEP 的「科技企业家园」为有意自行创业的校友提供基础设施。
• A boundary wall begun in 2005 now limits the entry of outside vehicles, and a road over-bridge completed afterwards links the campus more directly to Hijli railway station2005 年动工的围墙如今限制了外来车辆进入，此后建成的跨线立交桥则使校园与希吉里火车站的联系更为直接。
• Students are housed in halls throughout their stay, and most older rooms were built for a single student although rising numbers have brought shared rooms and triple occupancy in the newer blocks of some halls学生在整个求学期间均住校内宿舍，多数旧宿舍按单人设计，但随着人数增加，部分宿舍的新楼已出现双人间与三人间。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur is placed 205th in the world, a position that keeps it within the leading group of Indian institutions in the global table在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，印度理工学院克勒格布尔分校位列世界第 205 位，这一名次使其稳居全球榜单中印度高校的领先行列。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 do not list IIT Kharagpur in their world table, so the institute has no place in that edition2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名未将该校列入其世界榜单，因此该版榜内没有它的名次。
• The U.S. News Best Global Universities edition of 2026-2027 ranks the institute 791st in the world2026 至 2027 年版《美国新闻与世界报道》最佳全球大学排名将其列为世界第 791 位。
• In the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 it stands in the 801 to 900 band在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中，该校位于 801 至 900 区间。
• Its recent QS record shows a rise from 222nd in the 2024 and 2025 editions, when it was also ranked 73rd in Asia其近年 QS 名次由 2024 与 2025 年版的第 222 位回升，当时它还是亚洲第 73 位。
• In India the National Institutional Ranking Framework placed IIT Kharagpur 5th among engineering colleges and 6th overall in 2024, with its architecture department 2nd, its law school 7th and its management school 19th nationally在印度国内，国家院校排名框架 2024 年把该校列为工程学院第 5、综合第 6，其建筑系位列全国第 2、法学院第 7、管理学院第 19。
• Outlook India ranked it 4th among government engineering colleges in 2022《展望印度》在 2022 年将其列为政府工程学院第 4。
• The OpenAlex database attributes 71,785 works to the institute with 3,586,557 citations, and its own research information system reports about 902,545 citations to the institute's workOpenAlex 数据库为该校收录 71,785 篇成果、被引 3,586,557 次，其科研信息系统则记录该校成果约获 902,545 次引用。
• The Institute of Eminence designation of 2019 placed IIT Kharagpur among a small group of Indian public universities granted full academic and administrative autonomy2019 年获得的「卓越学院」地位，使该校跻身少数获完全学术与行政自治权的印度公立大学之列。
• The institute's global profile rests on its standing as the first IIT and on the strength of its engineering, technology and management programmes, which draw students from across India through a highly competitive entrance examination其国际声誉既源于作为首所印度理工学院的地位，也来自工程、技术与管理学科的强势，这些学科通过竞争激烈的入学考试吸引全印度学子。
• Its graduates are prized by recruiters, and in the 2021-2022 placement season the campus recorded 1,723 offers with a highest annual package of 2.4 crore rupees, the largest then reported among the IITs其毕业生深受雇主青睐，2021 至 2022 招聘季校园共发出 1,723 份录用通知，其中最高年薪达 2.4 千万卢比，为当时印度理工学院中最高。

Student life

• The institute's motto, taken from verse 50 of the second chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, is Yogaḥ Karmasu Kauśalam, which Sri Aurobindo translated as excellence in action is yoga学院校训取自《薄伽梵歌》第二章第 50 节「योगः कर्मसु कौशलम्」，斯里·阿罗频多将其译为「行动中的卓越即为瑜伽」。
• Students compete each year for the General Championship, a contest between the halls of residence held across four categories, sports, social and cultural activities, technology and hall affairs学生每年在「总冠军赛」中一比高下，这项宿舍之间的赛事分体育、社会与文化、技术以及宿舍事务四大类别。
• The institute takes part in the Inter IIT Sports Meet, held annually at a different IIT by rotation学院参加「IIT 校际运动会」，该赛事每年轮流在各印度理工学院举行。
• Spring Fest, held each January, is described as the largest student-run socio-cultural festival in Asia, drawing participants from over 150 colleges and headlined by artists such as Sunidhi Chauhan and Shaan每年一月举办的「春季节」被称为亚洲最大的学生自主运营的社会文化节，吸引 150 余所院校参与，演出嘉宾包括苏尼迪·乔汉与沙安等艺人。
• Kshitij, billed as Asia's largest techno-management festival and held in January or February, includes the student-run robotics competition Robotix号称亚洲最大科技管理节的「Kshitij」于一月或二月举行，其中包括学生自主举办的机器人竞赛 Robotix。
• The Department of Computer Science and Engineering runs Bitwise, an online programming contest held each February, whose 2011 edition drew 5,000 teams from 80 countries计算机科学与工程系每年二月举办在线编程竞赛 Bitwise，2011 年一届吸引了来自 80 个国家的 5,000 支队伍。
• The Entrepreneurship Cell runs the three-day Global Entrepreneurship Summit each January and a twenty-day Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive in twenty cities across India创业中心每年一月举办为期三天的全球创业峰会，并在印度二十座城市开展为期二十天的创业意识推广活动。
• Student publications include the fortnightly newsletter The Scholar's Avenue, named after the avenue that runs between the halls, and the Hindi monthly Awaaz学生刊物包括双周通讯《学者大道》，其名取自贯穿各宿舍的大道，以及印地语月刊《Awaaz》。
• Elections and much of student life are overseen by the Technology Students' Gymkhana, while clubs such as Team KART, founded in 2008, the Autonomous Ground Vehicle group and the Kharagpur Robosoccer Students' Group compete nationally and internationally选举与大部分学生生活由技术学生体育会统筹，而 2008 年成立的 KART 车队、自主地面车辆研究组与克勒格布尔机器人足球学生组等社团则在国内与国际赛场竞争。
• First- and second-year students choose between the National Cadet Corps, National Service Scheme, National Sports Organisation and National Cultural Appreciation, and most hostels keep their own sports grounds一、二年级学生须在「国家学员团」「全国服务计划」「国家体育组织」与「国家文化鉴赏」之间作出选择，多数宿舍还拥有各自的运动场地。

Notable people

• Bidhan Chandra Roy, the chief minister of West Bengal, persuaded Jawaharlal Nehru to site India's first institute of technology in his state, a decision that brought the IIT system to Kharagpur in 1950孟加拉邦首席部长比丹·钱德拉·罗伊说服贾瓦哈拉尔·尼赫鲁把印度第一所理工学院设在该邦，这一决定使印度理工学院体系于 1950 年落户克勒格布尔。
• Nalini Ranjan Sarkar chaired the 22-member committee of 1946 whose report laid out the model for the Indian Institutes of Technology纳利尼·兰詹·萨卡尔主持了 1946 年的 22 人委员会，其报告确立了印度理工学院的办学模式。
• Sir Jogendra Singh, a member of the Viceroy's executive council, set up the committee in 1946 that first examined the creation of higher technical institutions in India总督行政会议成员乔金德拉·辛格爵士在 1946 年设立委员会，首次研究在印度建立高等技术院校的问题。
• Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, India's first education minister, formally inaugurated the institute on 18 August 1951, and Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister, gave its first convocation address印度首任教育部长毛拉纳·阿布尔·卡拉姆·阿扎德于 1951 年 8 月 18 日正式主持落成，首任总理贾瓦哈拉尔·尼赫鲁则发表首届毕业典礼演讲。
• Sundar Pichai, a graduate in metallurgical engineering of 1993, earned a master's degree at Stanford University and an MBA at the Wharton School before joining Google in 2004, and is today the chief executive of Alphabet and Google1993 年冶金工程专业毕业生孙达尔·皮柴先后在斯坦福大学取得硕士学位、在沃顿商学院取得工商管理硕士，2004 年加入谷歌，如今是 Alphabet 与谷歌的首席执行官。
• Arvind Kejriwal, who studied mechanical engineering at the institute and earlier served as an officer of the Indian Revenue Service, later became chief minister of Delhi在该校学习机械工程、早年曾任职于印度税务局的阿尔温德·凯杰里瓦尔后来出任德里首席部长。
• Vinod Gupta, founder of the data company Infogroup, has given to the institute through the Vinod Gupta School of Management and the Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, and started the IIT Foundation in 1992数据公司 Infogroup 创始人维诺德·古普塔通过维诺德·古普塔管理学院与拉吉夫·甘地知识产权法学院捐资助学，并于 1992 年创立 IIT 基金会。
• Arun Sarin, a graduate, was chief executive of the Vodafone Group from 2003 to 2008该校毕业生阿伦·萨林曾在 2003 至 2008 年间出任沃达丰集团首席执行官。
• Suman Chakraborty, appointed director of the institute on 19 June 2025, is its current head2025 年 6 月 19 日获任的苏曼·查克拉博蒂是学院现任院长。
• Six alumni of the institute were listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia in 2021, while Pradeep Khosla, chancellor of the University of California San Diego, is among its best-known engineering graduates, and a wider group of former students lead technology and industrial firms学院有六位校友入选 2021 年《福布斯》亚洲「30 位 30 岁以下精英」，加州大学圣迭戈分校校长普拉迪普·科斯拉也是其最为知名的工科毕业生之一，其校友群体中更不乏执掌科技与工业企业者。
• The Swiss architect Werner M. Moser guided the planning of the campus layout in the 1950s瑞士建筑师维尔纳·M·莫泽在 20 世纪 50 年代主持了校园布局的规划。
• The institute recognises former students each year on its Convocation Day with the Distinguished Alumnus Award and also grants the Young Alumni Achiever Award学院每年在毕业典礼日以「杰出校友奖」表彰前学生，并另设「青年校友成就奖」。